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Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

& just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Comparing excavated sites

experimental archaeology